They wanted stories too grotesque, outlandish, and offensive to be published on FiftyWordStories.com or any mainstream web or print publication.
I selected three stories from my bottom drawer, stories filled with violence, sex, sacrilege, and scatology.
They were all accepted.
I’ll have to change my name and leave town!
Harry Demarest has retired after careers encompassing scientific research, teaching at a university, software development, web application development, and voter database compilation and distribution. He is now spending his time with his grandchildren and writing memoirs and short stories. This is a true story of his experiences submitting to a contest.
Topical and witty.
Funny with a touch of irony in the classic Greek sense. I take it Harry Demarest is not your real name. Sad, but well done!
“Harry’s Escape”
The rearview mirror was mere blackness. He lost them. Good.
Harry then sped through eight towns, but stopped at the ninth for gas. He was exhausted.
At the motel foyer, his eyes bulged: Joe and others were waiting. “You can’t run, Harry. You need help. Wanna start our own magazine?”